New Americans Campaign to Counteract Tougher Path to CitizenshipCitizenship Application Form to Double in Length, but Service Providers Will Smooth the Process

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Early this morning, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a change to the N-400 form — the citizenship application form that all aspiring Americans must fill out — that stands to make the citizenship application process more burdensome for millions of green card holders eligible for citizenship.

When the change goes into effect May 5, green card holders will face a citizenship application form that is twice as long, due to 10 additional pages of questions. (Click here to see the old form).

The New Americans Campaign, a nationwide collaborative working on innovative ways to help green card holders become citizens, plans to counteract the form change with dozens of citizenship workshops nationwide in the coming months:

“Green card holders have a 90 day window where they can use the old form — and the New Americans Campaign will hold dozens of free citizenship assistance events nationwide to make sure as many people as possible apply for citizenship before the change,” said Eric Cohen, Executive Director of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, which leads the campaign. “For those green card holders waiting to take the critical step of becoming citizens, there’s no better time than now.”

Posted on February 4, 2014

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Expanded the New American Workforce (an effort to provide naturalization assistance within corporations) which has partnered with over 100 businesses across the nation, ranging from hotels in Miami to American Apparel in Los Angeles.

Deployed CitizenshipWorks, an online tool, across the NAC in multiple settings and languages. This quarter the NAC also began to integrate the new CitizenshipWorks mobile phone app into services, and are poised to pilot CitizenshipWorks 2.0 with a New York partner.

Were instrumental in inspiring the US Citizenship and Immigration Service to support the Citizenship Corners initiative.

Created innovative partnerships with public libraries, school districts, universities, social service agencies, and employers, all of which yield not only greater numbers of applicants but also greater awareness of the naturalization process.

Deployed a large-scale volunteer recruitment program through an e-learning course.

People come to America from all over the world with dreams of achieving a better life for themselves and their families and calling this great nation home. Eight million people who live, work, and pay taxes in this country are eligible for citizenship, yet only about eight percent of them naturalize each year. Find out more about these individuals and the barriers they face.Read More

Mission

The New Americans Campaign is a groundbreaking national network of legal-service providers, faith-based organizations, businesses, foundations and community leaders that is paving a better road to citizenship. We are modernizing and streamlining access to naturalization services, so that greater numbers of legally qualified permanent residents take the critical step to becoming American citizens.